Subject: Re: Sv: [BoundaryPoint] binational quadripoints
Date: Oct 02, 2000 @ 20:20
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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fantastic
may our quest be with you matey

vis tecum



>
>I haven't been to Jungholz, but am heading to Baarle shortly, so will be
>able to rpeort later this year.
>As for Bengal, hard to tell. Many boundary pillars in the enclaves have been
>uprooted possibly as political protest, but locals said because outsiders
>thought they marked the location of, or themselves contianed, magents or
>other valuable material. There does seem to be at least one quadpoint where
>2 Bengal enclaves meet, but it is in the middle of a river (or at least was
>in 1930 when the map was drawn). I had to work with old British mapping when
>in the area, but the road network and the villages and the rivers had all
>dramatically changed in the intervening period.
>Once i have all my notes in one place, i will regale you with tales of
>enclave derring-do, and maybe a photo or two. Am currently in England.
>
>For those in the SW of the USA, check out the Navajo and Hopi reservations
>in NE Az (who hated 2 and 3 letter abbrevs? ;-) )
>One is enclaved in the other.
>Several Indian reservations in the US are also chequerboards fo squares,
>each 1 square mile. Like a chequerboard, the black squares belong to the
>natives, and the white squares to the whites... ironic, huh? ;-) See the
>area around Palm Springs especially. Often Federal land is also in such a
>pattern. The DeLorme state topographic road atlases often have a central
>page for the SW states, showing land ownership by Fed dept, private, state
>etc.
>
>Brendan
>
>
>>brendan
>>what a multi cross
>>
>>now you are holding the center piece of a mythic quintet of such crosses
>>that we are now daring to suppose actually exists in reality
>>involving a couple other such peneenclaves in baarle & a couple other
>>others in bengal
>>upon which
>>it just so happens
>>you may very well be uniquely well qualified on earth to report as well
>>
>>so please if you would
>>this is extremely exciting
>>
>>m
>>
>>
>> >
>> >Interesting, I have the German and austrian 1:25 000 sheets, and both
>> >seem to show a quadripoint form memory (i am out of the country at
>> >present). I have also heard from a colleague who spoke to the
>> >postmasteri n Jungholz that it is a point, surmounted by a cross,
>> >typical of Alpine countries, so that it is almost impossible to stand
>> >on the point itself. Jungholz is in the german customs and monetary
>> >zones, though this of less consequence since austria joined the EU,
>> >and with the Euro coming in.
>
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